Re: [mou-net] withholding info on rare birds

2011-11-06 Thread Richard Wood
ntact him and he's meet you at a certain place and take you there,  Unfortunately, the location got out and it turned into a zoo. Richard From: Fr. Paul Kammen To: MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2011 9:10 PM Subject: Re: [mou-net] withho

Re: [mou-net] withholding info on rare birds

2011-11-03 Thread Fr. Paul Kammen
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 20:36:05 -0500, Thamnophis wrote: >I'm new here and should probably keep my mouth shut, but that has >never been easy for me :-) > >I think sharing the localities is a good thing because it offers an >opportunity to remind newbies - like me - to abide by some guidelines. >For

Re: [mou-net] withholding info on rare birds

2011-11-03 Thread Thamnophis
I'm new here and should probably keep my mouth shut, but that has never been easy for me :-) I think sharing the localities is a good thing because it offers an opportunity to remind newbies - like me - to abide by some guidelines. For instance, one might give the location of a particular bird the

Re: [mou-net] withholding info on rare birds

2011-11-03 Thread Fr. Paul Kammen
> >Whatever happened to the joy of discovering your own birds? Long-eared, Northern-saw-whet, and Short-eared owls likely occur seasonally in almost any Minnesota county and I recall at least one article in the Loon in how to find your own Long-eared Owls. The thing of it is, not all of us ar

[mou-net] withholding info on rare birds

2011-11-03 Thread Robert P Russell
There are many reasons to withhold information on rare birds. You all should live in England/Scotland where the location of rare breeding birds is closely guarded and rarely publicized lest hordes of people or worse, egg collectors, get wind of the location and disturb the poor birds out of exi